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• Sports Desk: Lobos ready for a break

  21-12-2021 04:05 via krqe.com
  
  NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – The Lobos have dropped two straight, and with the holiday break on the horizon, it's easy to forget about basketball. However, coach Richard Pitino must stay focused as the team prepares for the final non-conference game of the season on Tuesday against Norfolk State.
  "Not going to be an easy game, by any means," says Pitino. "You cannot focus on your flight, you can't focus on any of that. Every coach hates that game. They hate it. Let's get a win. Let's find a wa
  
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• Albuquerque City Council moves to speed up downtown housing development

  16-04-2024 23:00 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Albuquerque City Council has approved a measure aimed at speeding up housing development downtown. The resolution puts permanent housing projects within the downtown center into the city's FasTrax program at no additional cost. ABQ city councilor proposes program that would provide day jobs to homeless peopleRight now, project approvals and construction permits are done on a first-come, first-serve basis but developers can pay an extra fee to be put int
  
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• NMSU fashion club to host annual Sustainable Fashion Show

  16-04-2024 22:55 via krqe.com
  
  LAS CRUCES, N.M. (KRQE) – Students at New Mexico State University will take their ideas for new threads down the runway. The Aggie Fashion Club will host its annual Sustainable Fashion Show this Thursday at 6:00 p.m. at the Aggie Lounge in Corbett Center Student Union.This year's theme is Book it to the Runway!," challenging designers to use literature as their inspiration. Materials they use include chip bags, curtains, playing cards, and even electric cables. NMSU Board of Regents s
  
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• New Mexico's rivers named 'most endangered' in annual list

  16-04-2024 22:52 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Water is life throughout New Mexico, but some advocates are concerned that the state's rivers are particularly vulnerable. In its annual report, American Rivers has named New Mexico's rivers as the most endangered in the nation."The report highlights ten rivers whose fate will be decided in the coming year and encourages decision-makers to do the right thing for the rivers and the communities they support," the advocacy group behind the report says on t
  
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• Albuquerque man sentenced to 40 years in prison for 2 murders

  16-04-2024 22:42 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – An Albuquerque man who pled guilty to a seemingly random murder will spend decades behind bars. Last February, the Albuquerque Police Department arrested 34-year-old Melvin Robinson and charged him with shooting a man in the back.3 adults, 1 teen arrested for deadly shooting outside Northeast Heights apartment complexRobinson was picked up with Casper Rickords police say the two admitted to the murder as well as a second murder a few months prior. Robin
  
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• One hospitalized after peanut mill fire in Portales

  16-04-2024 21:51 via krqe.com
  
  LUBBOCK, Texas -- Crews are on the scene of a fire at the peanut mill on Highway 70 in Portales, New Mexico that started on Monday afternoon, according to a social media post from the Portales Fire Department.
  PFD said one person was injured and taken to the hospital. Clovis Fire Department, Arch and Floyd Volunteer Fire Departments requested mutual aid, PFD said.
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• Which brand is growing the fastest in New Mexico?

  16-04-2024 21:39 via krqe.com
  
  NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Taking food, restaurants, and shopping into account, an April 10 Yelp report reveals the "Top 50 Fastest Growing Brands" in the United States.Yelp compiled the ranking based on net new business openings, consumer interest, and Yelp searches from 2022 to 2023, naming the top five fastest-growing brands in each state. New Mexico's five fastest-growing brands are as follows:
  Dutch BrosPopeyes Louisiana KitchenScooter's CoffeeAce Hardware CorporationFreddy's Froze
  
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• What is New Mexico's fastest-growing brand?

  16-04-2024 21:39 via krqe.com
  
  NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Taking food, restaurants, and shopping into account, an April 10 Yelp report reveals the "Top 50 Fastest Growing Brands" in the United States.Yelp compiled the ranking based on net new business openings, consumer interest, and Yelp searches from 2022 to 2023, naming the top five fastest-growing brands in each state. New Mexico's five fastest-growing brands are as follows:
  Dutch BrosPopeyes Louisiana KitchenScooter's CoffeeAce Hardware CorporationFreddy's Froze
  
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• Celebrate the Gila Wilderness 100th anniversary at the historic Mogollon Cemetery

  16-04-2024 21:38 via krqe.com
  
  NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – The Town of Mogollon is getting ready to celebrate 100 years of the Gila Wilderness with a special event at the historic Mogollon Cemetery on May 25, 2024. Pecos Canyon State Park hosting Earth Day cleanup eventThe event is limited to 70 participants so anyone planning to attend is encouraged to RSVP soon by reaching out to Cordelia Rose by phone or text at 575-313-1002. The historic cemetery is the resting place of minors, their families and residents of
  
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• BCSO releasing details on three recent deputy-involved shootings

  16-04-2024 20:47 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office is holding a news conference Tuesday, April 16 at 1 p.m. to release details on three recent deputy-involved shootings.
  KRQE News 13 will livestream the news conference on this pageMarch 17, 2024BCSO deputies were involved in a shooting with Jaremy Smith, who is accused of shooting and killing New Mexico State Police Officer Justin Hare. BCSO said a clerk at a gas station, located on Sunshine W Plaza Drive, reported they
  
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• Pecos Canyon State Park hosting Earth Day cleanup event

  16-04-2024 20:38 via krqe.com
  
  PECOS, N.M. (KRQE) – Earth Day is a chance to celebrate and help the planet. Communities around New Mexico are hosting events, and Pecos Canyon State Park is inviting residents to help clean the Pecos River and nearby roadway.The event is set for Saturday, April 20 from 9:30 a.m. to noon. Participants should meet at Our Lady of Guadalupe Abbey (16 Guadalupe Ln., Pecos, NM 87552). Earth Day festival coming to Albuquerque on April 21Participants can sign up at this link. The event
  
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• City of Albuquerque hosting annual 50+ Senior Tech Connect Fair

  16-04-2024 20:26 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The City of Albuquerque Department of Senior Affairs is teaming up with Adelante DiverseIT and Teeniors to host the annual 50+Senior Tech Connect Fair at Manzano Mesa Multigenerational Center from 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. on April 19. Santa Fe awarded funds to map heat in neighborhoodsThe event is free to attend and aims to educate seniors on how to use today's technology effectively and safely. There will be demonstrations and a variety of technology educatio
  
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• 3 adults, 1 teen arrested for deadly shooting outside Northeast Heights apartment complex

  16-04-2024 20:00 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Three adults and one teen were arrested for allegedly killing a man outside an apartment complex in the Northeast Heights Thursday morning, Albuquerque Police said.Detectives arrested Daniel Eduardo Ruiz, 17, Jimena Yanez, 28, and Jazmin Ruiz Castro, 35, on Friday. SWAT officers arrested Aldo Muñoz, 21, on Monday. Officers responded to a 911 call around 1:18 a.m. about gunshots fired in the area of an apartment, located at 11811 Menaul Blvd., NE.
  
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• Language competition in New Mexico helps boost Chinese language learning

  16-04-2024 19:16 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – New Mexico educators are coming together to support Chinese language learning with a speech competition and talent show. The event begs the question: 你会说中文吗?
  That means "Do you speak Chinese?" And for students competing in the April 20 New Mexico Chinese Language Speech Competition, the answer is: "当然" ("of course")! Petroglyph National Monument closing some trails after visitors move rocks, make c
  
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• Santa Fe awarded funds to map heat in neighborhoods

  16-04-2024 18:58 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – Santa Fe has received a grant to collect temperature data to better understand how heat is impacting the city. The funds come from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).“Climate change is increasing the intensity and frequency of heat waves in our country,” NOAA Chief Scientist Sarah Kapnick said in a press release. The project is part of the multi-year NOAA Urban Heat Island mapping project. New federal oil and gas rule co
  
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• Bidens report nearly $620K in income, Harris and her husband report more than $450K

  16-04-2024 18:54 via krqe.com
  
  (The Hill) -- President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden made a combined income of $619,976 last year, and Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband made $450,299, according to the couples’ 2023 tax returns the White House released Monday.The president and his wife paid an effective federal income tax rate of 23.7 percent, the documents showed, and paid a total of $146,629 in federal income tax.The annual salary of a president is $400,000, and Jill Biden works as a professor at North
  
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• Why can't we watch Trump's hush money trial?

  16-04-2024 18:53 via krqe.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — It's a moment in history — the first U.S. president facing criminal charges in an American courtroom. Yet only a handful of observers are able to see or even hear what is going on.Instead, most of the nation is getting news of former President Donald Trump's hush money trial secondhand. Starting with preliminary motions and jury selection Monday, reporters in a Manhattan courtroom must convey what is being said to the outside world after the fact.S
  
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• Most coral reef areas experienced bleaching in past year: Research

  16-04-2024 18:53 via krqe.com
  
  (The Hill) -- Coral reefs around the globe experienced a mass bleaching event in the past year as the ocean continues to heat, according to new research.
  Mass bleaching has been reported in coral reefs in at least 53 countries and territories in the Northern and Southern hemispheres since early 2023, researchers with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) said in a statement Monday.Coral bleaching occurs when corals are stres
  
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• Huge Saharan dust blob cooling the eastern Atlantic

  16-04-2024 18:52 via krqe.com
  
  TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A huge plume of Saharan dust is now visible on satellite loops coming off of Africa into the eastern Tropical Atlantic Ocean. This, combined with stronger than normal easterly winds of the Saharan Desert, is helping cool part of the far Eastern Atlantic, where the seeds for some hurricanes originate.While the suspended dust makes for hazy skies and—when it falls down—can result in a very dusty ground over land, there is an upside. The haze blocks out the su
  
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• CDC investigating reports of counterfeit or mishandled Botox injections in 9 states 

  16-04-2024 18:50 via krqe.com
  
  (The Hill) -- Federal agencies and state and local health departments are investigating reports of reactions to injections of counterfeit or mishandled botulinum toxin, commonly known as Botox, across nine states.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said 19 people across nine states reported harmful reactions after receiving botulinum toxin shots from unlicensed or untrained individuals or in non-healthcare settings as of April 12. The states include Colorado, Florida, Illinois,
  
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• American Airlines pilots union warns of 'significant spike' in safety problems 

  16-04-2024 18:49 via krqe.com
  
  (The Hill) -- A union representing pilots for American Airlines warned over the weekend that there has been a “significant spike” in safety problems at the airline.“APA has been tracking a significant spike in safety- and maintenance-related problems in our operation," the safety committee of the Allied Pilots Association (APA) wrote in a memo dated April 13. "While United Airlines is currently under public and government scrutiny, it could just as easily be American Airlines."
  
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• Meow Wolf announces that it will lay off workers, cut expenses

  16-04-2024 18:28 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – Santa Fe-based immersive art collective Meow Wolf plans to lay off 165 workers. Meow Wolf CEO Jose Tolosa made the announcement in an email to all employees Monday night."Meow Wolf notified our colleagues that we will soon be cutting expenses by 10% and reducing our workforce by 165 people company-wide in order to right-size the business to ensure future success," Tolosa wrote in part in an email statement to KRQE News 13 on Tuesday.Story continues below
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• It's Free Cone Day at Ben & Jerry's: How to get your free scoop

  16-04-2024 16:17 via krqe.com
  
  (WPHL) - I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream — especially when it's free.Ben & Jerry's is celebrating its annual "Free Cone Day" on April 16, with hopes to give out over 1 million scoops at shops across the globe.
  What is Free Cone Day?Ben & Jerry's celebrated its first-ever Free Cone Day in 1979, at its then-only shop in Burlington, Vermont. The tradition remained when Ben & Jerry's expanded throughout the state and beyond, though the date had changed several tim
  
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• KRQE Newsfeed: Armorer sentenced, Day job program, Warmer temperatures, Route 66 gateway, Trail closings

  16-04-2024 15:09 via krqe.com
  
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  Hundreds of New Mexicans are waiting for a kidneyVIDEO: Man arrested for DWI, fighting BCSO deputy79-year-old stabbed to death in Colfax CountyBuffett’s Candies hoping to open second location by the end of this weekVisit Albuquerque offering thousands of dollars’ worth of grants to boost tourismAPD completes review of hundreds of police uses of forceAFR firefighter pleads guilty to DWI chargeTicketmaster to face federal antitrust lawsuit, reports sayIsrael says
  
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• Lighter winds and warming temperatures

  16-04-2024 14:59 via krqe.com
  
  Tuesday morning is cool and mostly clear. Winds are breezy in east-central and northeast New Mexico. There are high wind warnings and wind advisories in effect until 3 p.m. for the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, northeast highlands, including Las Vegas, and the central highlands and east plains, including Clines Corners to Santa Rosa.Forecast Continues Below
  New Mexico: State opposes Hannah Gutierrez’s conditional discharge request, says she shows no ‘remorse’Trending: KRQE News S
  
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• Hundreds of New Mexicans are waiting for a kidney

  16-04-2024 14:00 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Hundreds of New Mexicans are waiting for a life-saving organ donation from someone they may never meet. According to Donor Services, Kidneys are the most needed organ in New Mexico due to the increased risk of diabetes and kidney failure.
  This week on the New Mexico News Podcast, Victoria Yocum shares her journey as a young woman with a rare liver disease, the obstacles she navigated in the local healthcare system, and how she’s paying her gift forwar
  
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• Ticketmaster to face federal antitrust lawsuit, reports say

  16-04-2024 13:54 via krqe.com
  
  (The Hill) - The Justice Department is preparing to file a federal antitrust lawsuit against Live Nation, the parent company of Ticketmaster, according to multiple reports.The Wall Street Journal first reported Monday that the Justice Department will be filing an antitrust lawsuit against Live Nation in the coming weeks, citing people familiar with the matter. Live Nation and Ticketmaster have faced widespread public scrutiny for its dominance in the ticketing industry, which critics say has all
  
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• ABQ City Council closer to securing funding for Route 66 welcome gateway

  16-04-2024 06:13 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Albuquerque City Council is one step closer to building a Route 66 welcome gateway on the east side of the city. The council voted to file for a $500,000 grant from the New Mexico Tourism Department for a Route 66 entrance similar to that of the gateway sign on the city's west side near Central and Coors. ABQ city councilor proposes program that would provide day jobs to homeless peopleThe resolution also allows for an additional $26,000 from next year's bud
  
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• How does the NBA Play-In Tournament work?

  16-04-2024 03:34 via krqe.com
  
  (KTLA) – After a grueling 82-game regular season, the NBA postseason is only days away with 20 teams still in the hunt for a trip to the NBA Finals.But before the playoffs can begin in earnest, a few things still need to happen: four teams need to get the boot and sent on summer break so the bottom half of each conference bracket can be finalized.
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• Buffett's Candies hoping to open second location by the end of this week

  16-04-2024 03:09 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Those with a sweet tooth will soon have a new place to satisfy their cravings as an Albuquerque classic gets ready to open up a second location. "We've dreamed about it, we've planned for it," said Donna Buffett, co-owner of Buffett's Candies.
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  New Mexico: State opposes Hannah Gutierrez’s conditional discharge request, says she shows no ‘remorse’Trending: KRQE News Special: The Albuquerque Police Department’s
  
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